I love the challenge to work with what you are given in this assignment. I felt very nervous when I was pasting the url into the browser and pressing enter. I was afraid it would randomly generate me with something horrible. At first I did not like what it was given, but I think the end result turned out well. Here are screen shots of what I received:

I had just downloaded GIMP so spent a good hour experimenting with all of the different tools to see what they did. The image I was given had obviously already been edited. I tried to work with what the pervious owner had done, instead of against it. I tweaked the levels of red, green, and blue in the image to get its color. I also got rid of some of the “hairs” coming off of the animal, mainly the ones around his eyes. I liked the image better with solid black eyes. I experimented with different colors and cropping different sections of the image. I tried putting the text in different areas  on the image and looked at almost every font in the program.

When I was finally content with the result of the image it was time to save. I had a very hard time saving the photo through GIMP. Eventually I just resorted to taking a print screen of my monitor and cropping the image. This worked pretty well, but I am afraid it lowered my image quality. In all I am sure that my issues with saving were an operator error. I’ll have to experiment with it more to get the hang of how the program operates.

This is a very fun project that really challenges you to be creative and I thoroughly enjoyed doing it!